E.G. Marshall
Highest Rated: 100% Compulsion (1959)
Lowest Rated: 0% Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)
Birthday: Jun 18, 1914
Birthplace: Not Available
Actor E. G. Marshall started out on radio in his native Minnesota, then headed for New York and Broadway. After several years' solid stage service, Marshall began accepting small roles in such films as 13 Rue Madeline (1945) and Call Northside 777 (1947). A mainstay of television's so-called Golden Age, Marshall excelled in incisive, authoritative roles. Long before winning two Emmy awards for his portrayal of lawyer Lawrence Preston on TV's The Defenders (1961-65), Marshall was associated with fictional jurisprudence as the military prosecutor in The Caine Mutiny (1954) and as Juror #4 in Twelve Angry Men (1957). In contrast to his businesslike demeanor, Marshall is one of Hollywood's most notorious pranksters; he was never more impish than when he ad-libbed profanities and nonsequiturs while his lips were hidden by a surgical mask in the 1969-73 TV series The Bold Ones. The best of E.G. Marshall's work of the 1970s and 1980s includes the role of the straying husband in Woody Allen's Interiors (1977), the U.S. President in Superman II (1978) and General Eisenhower in the 1985 TV miniseries War and Remembrance. Continuing to flourish into the 1990s, Marshall was seen in the 1993 TV adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, and was cast as Arthur Thurmond on the 1994 medical series Chicago Hope. Radio fans will remember E.G. Marshall as the unctuous host ("Pleasant dreeeaaammms") of the 1970s anthology The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

CREDIT
No Score Yet Kifaru... The Black Rhino Actor — 2011
No Score Yet The Defenders Choice Of Evils Preston — 1998
No Score Yet Miss Evers' Boys Chairman — 1997
47% Absolute Power Walter Sullivan — 1997
No Score Yet The Defenders: Payback Lawrence Preston — 1997
74% Nixon John N. Mitchell — 1995
No Score Yet Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All Prof. Taw — 1994
8% The Tommyknockers Ev — 1993
No Score Yet Russian Roulette Actor — 1993
25% Consenting Adults George Gordon — 1992
No Score Yet Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865 Gideon Welles — 1992
No Score Yet Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864 Gideon Welles — 1992
No Score Yet Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863 Gideon Welles — 1992
No Score Yet Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862 Gideon Welles — 1992
No Score Yet Ironclads Actor — 1990
59% Two Evil Eyes Steven Pike — 1990
65% National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Art — 1989
No Score Yet The Gallant Breed Actor — 1988
No Score Yet World of National Geographic Actor — 1988
No Score Yet National Geographic - Beyond 2000: The Explorers Actor — 1988
50% Power Sen. Sam Hastings — 1986
No Score Yet My Chauffeur Witherspoon — 1986
No Score Yet Thank You, Mr. President Actor — 1984
No Score Yet Kennedy: The Presidential Years Actor — 1983
No Score Yet Saigon: Year of the Cat The Ambassador — 1983
71% Creepshow Upson Pratt — 1982
No Score Yet Eleanor, First Lady of the World John Foster Dulles — 1982
85% Superman II The President — 1981
No Score Yet Superliners: Twilight of an Era Actor — 1980
No Score Yet Disaster on the Coastliner Roy Snyder — 1979
No Score Yet The Lazarus Syndrome Actor — 1979
No Score Yet Vampire Actor — 1979
79% Interiors Arthur — 1978
No Score Yet The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover Actor — 1978
0% Billy Jack Goes to Washington Sen. Joseph Paine — 1977
No Score Yet Independence Narrator — 1976
No Score Yet The Abduction of Saint Anne Bishop Francis Paul Logan — 1975
No Score Yet Pursuit James Wright — 1972
No Score Yet The Pursuit of Happiness Daniel Lawrence — 1971
55% Tora! Tora! Tora! Lt. Col. Rufus S. Bratton — 1970
No Score Yet The Littlest Angel God — 1969
No Score Yet The Bridge at Remagen Brig. Gen. Shinner — 1969
No Score Yet The Poppy Is Also a Flower Coley Jones — 1966
80% The Chase Val Rogers — 1966
67% Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?) Intelligence Officer Powell — 1966
60% Town Without Pity Col. Jerome Pakenham — 1961
No Score Yet Cash McCall Winston Conway — 1960
No Score Yet The Journey Harold Rhinelander — 1959
100% Compulsion District Attorney Harold Horn — 1959
No Score Yet The Buccaneer Gov. Claiborne — 1958
No Score Yet Man on Fire Sam Dunstock — 1957
100% 12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) Juror No. 4 — 1957
No Score Yet The Bachelor Party Walter — 1957
No Score Yet The Mountain Solange — 1956
No Score Yet The Left Hand of God Dr. Sigman — 1955
No Score Yet The Bamboo Prison Father Francis Dolan — 1954
88% Broken Lance The Governor — 1954
13% The Silver Chalice Ignatius — 1954
80% Pushover Lt. Carl Eckstrom — 1954
92% The Caine Mutiny Lt. Cmdr. Challee — 1954
No Score Yet Diplomatic Courier M.P. at Trieste — 1952
73% Call Northside 777 Rayska — 1948
83% 13 Rue Madeleine Emile — 1947
50% The House on 92nd Street Attendant at Morgue — 1945
No Score Yet Dixiana Carl Van Horn — 1930

TV

CREDIT
No Score Yet Chicago Hope
1994-2000
Dr. Arthur Thurmond
  • 1996
  • 1995
  • 1994
No Score Yet The Cosby Show
1984-1992
Stanley Rappaport
  • 1991
No Score Yet Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
Prof. Walker
  • 1989
No Score Yet War and Remembrance
1988-1989
Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 1989
No Score Yet The Equalizer
1985-1989
Sen. Blake
  • 1988
No Score Yet Ironside
1967-1975
Craig
  • 1972
No Score Yet Night Gallery
1970-1973
Undertaker
  • 1971
77% The Brady Bunch
1969-1974
J.P. Randolph
  • 1970
No Score Yet Rawhide
1959-1965
Ben Foley
  • 1961
No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
Ronald Grimes
  • 1957

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